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. METALLIG WRAPPER. No. 290,831. Patented Dec. 25, 1883.

l/flt leaf or foil,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC THEODORE E. ALLEN,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y:

M ETALLlC WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Application filed March '7, 1883. (No model.)

preserving tobacco inenvelopes of tin-foil.

The object of my invention is -to make the tin-foil more durable and capable of being manipulated to a much-greater extent than is possible with thefoil in common use; and to this end with a thin non-elastic textile lining, which is securely fastened teone side thereof.

In the rawings,

. view, an Fig. 2 an enlarged sectional view,

, per to protect various articles.

having some elasticity, when of a sheet of my improved wrapping material. I It is composed of a facing of tin-foil,

ing superimposed it on a sheet of cloth, linen,

or other textile fabric or web, the contactsurface of which or of the foil having been" previously treated with some adhesive preparation, usually a liquid gum or glue, submit it and such fabric to the action of a press or pressure-rolls, which causes the two surfaces to become closely and permanently united.

Heretofore tin-foil has been used with pa- The foil and paper havebeen' fastened together by means of a paste or cement; but usually the article protected has been first wrapped in paper and the whole then covered with tin-foil. These uses of paper in no practical way in? crease the strength of the foil, hat in a great measure destroy its efficiency,

once unsealed, tends to fly open, and the qualities of the material it is designed to protect are dissipated crease the liability of it sufficiently strong to wear they are subject to when used to pro-- against atmospheric it consists in re-enforcing the foil Figure 1 represents a face A, and

a backing or lining of cloth, B, these two surposes of ornamentation,

' actr.

for the paper,

by exposure to the air, and its corners and folds puncture and abrade 7 being crumpled and torn off the package.

the tin-foil and in'-- No. 290,831, dated December 25, 1883..

It is essential, therefore, that these air-excluding envelopes be stand the handling and tect articles that are consumed in small quan tities, like tobacco, and they should also be;

. of such ductility that they can readily be made} to conform to the shape of their contents, so as to always closely inclose them, in order that their freshness and flavor may be re- "tained until the whole is consumed.

, It will be seen that my wrapper possesses these features in an The tin foil gives influences, and its soft inelastic lining, while giving it all requisite strength and durability,

almost perfect degree." the .desired protection accommodates itself,

without resistanceor recoil, to whatever shape the foil may assume y Y I am aware that in English Provisional Specification No. 2,893 of 187 2 and Patent 'No.. 12,415 M1849 it has poses to coat fabrics, stu

with thin sheets of paper, and other bodies -metal, to be afterward embossed and otherwise ornamented but no provision is made in these cases for uniting fabric of such thinness that while it will strengthen the foil it will not materially interfere with its pliability and non-elastic char- Afurther material difference between said inventions and the present one consists in the fact that in saidinventions the metal was used for purposes of ornamentation and was subsidiary to the heavy fabric to which it was attached, while in the present invention the tin foil is the mainelement, and the thin textile fabric is subsidiary thereto.

What I claim as new is- As a new article of manufacture, an air-excluding wrapper for tobacco and other materials, composed of tin-foil and textile fabric united together, substantially as set forth. THEODORE E. ALLEN.

Witnesses: I

W. F. Hnrcoon, 03. F. GAYLORD.

a sheet of tin-foil or equivalent metallic substance with awoven y been proposed, for purof making wall-hangings and for pur- 

